Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-05-27
OH, BY GOSH =!
WHEELING DOwNBD BY SANDUSKY, YES
TBRDAY AFTERNOON.
How Was Il? Well. Yes It Was-ZanesTiue
Knocked Gid by AkrOn-Oolunbas DOwnsd
by the Gandsrs and Stsubenville BY
Mansfield

Fresh from their three straight defeats at
Steubenville, the Sandusky club struck
Wheeling night before last a sad and sorry
lot of ball-players. Everybody said to
themselves as they chuckled in their
sleeves and nudged each other slyly in the
ribs, lust wait until tomorrow afternoon,
and you'll hear something drop" Many
enthusiastic citizens even went to the
length of backing their ridicule with gen.
erous portions of their hard-earned wealth,
invested at the rate of three to one, and
accompanied with many quaint conceits
and witty allusions to the foolhardiness Of
the takers. The Wheeling team made all
the necessary preparations TO win the
game. Dunn left the "tailless perp" at
home, busily engaged in investigating the
contents OF superannuated collar box
Smith put on his high-heeled shoes with n
confident grin on his expressive phiz;
Bailey laid in an extra large dinner and, in
fact, everything was lovely and the goose
hung high. But, alas! the merry smiles
of the morning are now changed into the
weeping and wailing of disappointed hopes.
The price of Grape has advanced l0per cent
and the gloom OF a July thunderstorm
now rests upon our devoted city. NAL
lory's lovely smile has gone to come no
more, and Speidcl hasn't exactly found
out yet what it was that struck him, al
though it is reported that he is thinking
hard. Steel shut himself up in his room
Immediately after the game, and has been
kicking himself ever since, to judge from
the thumps and thuds and awful groans
which ilOated on the air in the vicinity of
the apartment. Ellifr says he got in two
hits, anyhow, if one of them WAS a base on
balls, and Crogan didn't say anything, but
looked dictionaries.
The Sandusky boys are very reticent,
but they smile dreadful smile that is
very CALLING to their would-be victors.
The game was well played by both
teams, and was exciting all the way
through. The visitors scored four times
in the first inning OH very poor fielding by
Steel and one or two opportune hits, but
the game was tied by Wheeling in the sec
old, and thus il stood until the eight,
W1Cu sNdllNlushN hldtlc luItt IllS Nv goOu
hitting and an error at the plate. Every
body gave it up and began TO leave, but
the Green Stockings began to pound the
ball at last, and hammered out four runs,
which placed them in the lead. This was
very cheering, but all hopes of a possible
victory were dashed at once, rs the visitors
got enough, with only two men out in
their half of the ninth, to win the game,
and the jig was up.
The contest abounded in brilliant plays,
Bailey and Smith excellng in this respect,
Bailey's play, in particular, being the
finest seen this season, two catches of diff
ficult flies, and wonderful stop and back.
hand throw TO first winninggreat applause.
Smiths g feet 2 inches came in cOnven-
ienlly ut one time, rs he captured q fly
which Spedel couldn't have touched by
two feet. WeStlake bltted hard, but,
with his usual ill-luck, drove the ball into
the iielders' hands every time.
Smith and Bailey will he the Wheeling
battery this afternoon.
The score yesterday was as follows: